The big delay in the date of joining for software concerns!!

Hi guyz and galz! As i mentioned in my previous blog, i'm an IT graduate from SSN College Of Engineering, Chennai. I passed out of college just this year some 10 days ago. I'd like to share my views on my college placement with you all. We had some good placements in SSN for my senior batches. Mind you all. Senior batches! They got bulk placements in CTS, Infy, HCL and many other leading companies. But, with our batch, luck played a very bad game, or I must say, the college played a very bad game, introducing a new rule saying that each company can take a maximum of only 60 students and not more. So, with great difficulty, we all stumbled one company after another, each of us getting placed in different companies, and some of them losing their opportunity in spite of being well equipped with soft skills required for getting a job. Even if they were eligible, the company was not able to take them up cause if there are some 75-80 students on the employers list whom he'd like to take, he has to randomly axe down a few candidates! (Placement needs a loooooooooottttttttt of luck dudes!!)

But, even after so much agony, most of us got placed in one company or other. Now, its time for us to face yet another crisis. Many of my fellow graduates who've got placed must be knowing, we've not been given the date of joining yet! And its getting delayed day-by-day, week-by-week and month-by-month. Dunno if it soon will become an "year-by-year" situation!! If we ring up the HRs to ask "whats cooking!!", they don't have a proper reply for us. Experts say that the main reason behind this is the fluctuation of the Rupee value against the US Dollar. Some say that companies call on the basis of "How-flourishing-the-business-is"!!! As of now, the gossip mills say that TCS will call the fresh recruits by November, HCL by September-October time, CTS in January 2009!, Caritor in February-March 2009!!, Infosys by August-September, Wipro by November. But, the thing of worry is that these are not confirmed schedules of the date-of-joining. Though there are a few lucky people who have been placed in iNautix and Mphasis EDS, who have already been recruited!!

So, guys, we all are facing the same problem! Dunno how long this wait will go on!! But, we have to wait if we want a strong foothold in the industry... All the best for all of them who are in this "waiting" bandwagon! Hope u get recruited soon(if u want!! Otherwise we can enjoy the good life of eating and sleeping for a few more months!!) Catch u later guyz, its me, Chella, signing off till then! Bye... :)